| Teaching Sparring to Kids |
Mon 10:47 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
After a good class, but a frustrating sparring session for some of the children Wednesday, I began to wonder about the best way to teach sparring to children.
Then I suddenly realized there was a forum for questions about martial arts--Karate Forums!
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| The Karate Secret No One Wants You To Know |
Mon 10:46 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
Have you seen the History Channel's new show Human Weapon yet? Its pretty friggen good.
The concept is that these two athletic dudes (one an MMA fighter, the other a former football player and wrestler) travel all over the world to train with, and then test out various cultures' martial arts.
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| Tae Kwon Do is Excellent Exercise for Young and Old |
Mon 10:44 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
Tae Kwon Do is Korean Karate. It means The Way of the Hand and Foot (punching and kicking). There are basically four sections to the art: Toning, Sparring, Forms and Self Defense.
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| Martial arts medal winner knocked out by latest award |
Mon 10:41 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
DONCASTER Olympic Bronze medallist Sarah Stevenson has been handed another award to put next to her medal.
She has been presented with an honorary Discover the Spirit Award in recognition of her achievement in taekwondo at the games in Beijing.
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| Mixed martial arts criticism unwarranted |
Mon 10:40 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
Mixed martial arts, or MMA, has exploded as a sport. In 1993, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, now the largest MMA promotion in the world, held its first event. It was chaotic. It was intense. It was violent.
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| Boxing And Martial Art Equipment – Following The Dress Code! |
Mon 05:16 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
In modern times, Muay Thai is not the same sport as it used to be. New rules have been applied and the equipment resembles more and more Western boxing. Thus, you should not be surprised if the boxing gloves you find online look really similar to the ones you see on American boxers. Nevertheless, it’s important that you understand that there is a very strict dress code for anyone interested in practicing this sport. There is no other garment than the one comprised of boxing shorts and gloves accepted.
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| History of Judo in the Olympics |
Mon 05:15 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
Judo is one of the many martial arts forms and is an offshoot of a much older martial art, jujitsu. Jujitsu began in the 1530’s, and by the mid-1800’s there were over seven hundred different jujitsu systems. In 1882, Dr. Jigoro Kano, then the President of University of Education in Tokyo, Japan, combined the best and most effective techniques from the numerous forms of jujitsu to form the marital art known as judo. Originally, judo was practiced in feudal Japan as a fighting method.
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| Vietnam wins two golds at 2008 Asian junior karate champs |
Mon 05:12 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
Vietnamese martial artist snatched two gold and one silver medals on August 28, the first competition day of the four-day Asian Karate Federation’s Junior and Cadet Karate Championships in Malaysia.
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| What Is Sport Karate? |
Mon 05:10 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
In today’s terminology, Sport Karate (or Sport Martial Arts) is the application of competitive martial arts in a sporting environment, and has been around for a few decades.
The two main categories/divisions of competition are Fighting and Forms.
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| Anything's a weapon in Filipino Martial Arts |
Mon 05:06 GMT. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
Filipino Martial Arts, more popularly known as "Arnis" or "Eskrima," is based on one thing and one thing alone: survival.
The weapon-heavy style is one of many self-defense techniques offered at Hayward Martial Arts in downtown Hayward.
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